British lawmakers said on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, that the digital currency market requires immediate regulations. The government should take an extra step to secure retail investors from unstable prices, technical vulnerabilities and set U.K to turn into a world leader in the Crypto sector, given its stead as a financial hub.

The Blockchain ecosystem is flourishing, and PNC Bank, one of the top ten banks of the US, is following it. The financial institution has joined the booming Blockchain RippleNet by Ripple. Additionally, it has become one of the 100+ banks that have come to incorporate the RippleNet Blockchain.

The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is purportedly working on a draft bill concerning the use of digital currency, as per a September 14 article on ForkLog, a Russian technology site. The revised bill is anticipated to go before Russian officials next month.

In a tiny but multiplying community of Cryptocurrency users in the largely occupied Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Bitcoin (BTC) has become a source of salvation in a crisis.

Cryptocurrency markets are still holding the recent gains and swinging around the last support levels. While 16/20 Altcoins, according to market cap, are in the red, overall total market cap still floats around recent levels, as per CoinMarketCap.

The swift increase of mobile payment services such as Alipay and WeChat Pay has empowered China's largest cities to transmogrify into cashless communities, allowing consumers to use their smartphones to pay for many goods and services ranging from all sorts of transport and meals to foot massages and movie tickets.